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Conclusion people will draw is that, well, there's less of a case here to go forward wktability for the president. and i talked to two members of congress tonight who said already in the democratic caucus up on capitol hill there's less momentum for impeachment tonight than there was before these hearings. >> and frank figliuzzi, that's a fair question. what else didn't you hear today that perhaps you wanted to? >> oh, i think it would have been very compelling if mueller had actually said, look, if donald j. trump was not the president of the united states i would be referring him for crimina...

So they really came into this knowing that they were likely to get pretty thin gruel from mueller, and i think unfortunately for them that's what was served up. >> so jeremy bash, another case of expectations being too high, and it proved nothing against the outgoing energy of the president. >> yeah. and i just want to go back to this point that frank and others raised, which is you know, we live in an era of raised voices. actually, i don't think it would have required raised voices. i don't think it would have required hyperbole, drama, razzle-dazzle. i actually think all bob mueller had to ...

>> ned price gets tonight's last word. i know all of you have many more words to say about this. ron klain, mieke eoyang, jill wine-banks and ned price, thank you very much for joining us on this important night. that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. tonight a long day's journey into something less than the democrats had hoped for for so long. robert mueller in his own words. reluctant, passive, halting? stern warnings, few findings of fault. he did not have all the answers. tonight we'll look at what he did say. it's not a witch hunt, it's not a hoax. ...

Read parts of his report as people had hoped earlier. so they really came into this knowing that they were likely to get pretty thin gruel from mueller, and i think unfortunately for them that's what was served up. >> so jeremy bash, another case of expectations being too high, and it proved nothing against the outgoing energy of the president. >> yeah. and i just want to go back to this point that frank and others raised, which is you know, we live in an era of raised voices. actually, i don't think it would have required raised voices. i don't think it would have required hyperbole, drama, r...

Mueller kept noticeably shorter hours than he had as fbi director when he showed up at the bureau daily at 6:00 a.m., often worked nights. he seemed to cede substantial responsibility to his top deputies, including aaron zebley, who managed date-day operations. as negotiations with president trump's lawyers about interviewing him dragged on, for example, mr. mueller took part less and less. is that, frank, what you think we saw today? >> well, we didn't see the man that i served as fbi director. but we saw a man who is approaching age 75 in a couple of weeks. the question we have to ask oursel...